Category: Charity

This year’s Jersey Cheshire Home Golf Day – the Island’s longest-running and largest charity golf event – raised more than £15,000 for Jersey Cheshire Home. Now in its 15th year, the event, which is sponsored by Airtel-Vodafone, involved 26 corporate teams playing on 16 May at La Moye Golf Course. David Lord, General Manager of […]

Variety, the Children’s Charity have today launched the ‘Variety’s Star of the Year Awards,’ the annual awards which celebrate the courage, creativity, and commitment of children and young people in Jersey. Aimed at young people in the Island aged between six and sixteen, the 2014 event marks some changes, not only in the title but […]

Parents and babies from the Brighter Futures Baby Growing Together group have been learning how to play musical instruments, thanks to the support of Hawksford and the Progressive School of Music. Local trust company, Hawksford, has been supporting Brighter Futures for the past three years and will be sponsoring the charity’s Baby Growing Together group […]

An island wide search is on to find Jersey’s most talented youngsters in a fund raising event inspired by ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. ‘Jersey’s (Kids) Got Talent’ is being organised by Centre Point Trust to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the charity. It culminates in a grand charity ball for the final five acts at […]

50 employees from Barclays in Jersey will be volunteering at this year’s Barclays Jersey Boat Show. The volunteers will be offering directions and advice on what there is to see and do at the Boat Show along with helping to raise money for the charities by running the Barclays ‘Hook a Duck’ game featuring the […]

ABN AMRO Bank is celebrating its 40th year in Jersey through a corporate partnership with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. ABN AMRO Bank selected Durrell as its charity partner for 2014 as one of the bank’s core values is sustainability – one also held by the charitable trust. Throughout the year, ABN AMRO Bank will be […]

The Eastern Good Companions Club has enjoyed a mini-makeover with the help of employees from RBS International. Equipped with paint pots and paint brushes, a 20-strong team of Bank volunteers transformed the entrance foyer and lounge, while outside there those with green fingers tidied up and added new plants to the flower beds. Jerry Whitsey, […]

Jersey Water will be hosting for the first time a Car Boot Sale at the Val De La Mare Reservoir site on Sunday 11th May 2014 from 10am to 2pm. All proceeds will go to Friends of Jersey Oncology (FOJO), which is Jersey Waters selected charity for 2014. The Car Boot will be managed and […]

During the last week of Autism Awareness month, Autism Jersey have released a very honest, personal and moving video clip with contributions from parents who have children with autism. It aims to increase understanding of autism within the island, reduce judgement and improve awareness of the charity which provides support to individuals with autism, their […]

Some 18 staff from State Street in Jersey entered the gorilla enclosure at Durrell recently to help with the ambitious renovation plan for the area. Equipped with paint brushes and paints and while the gorillas themselves were safely housed in the indoor enclosure for the day, the State Street volunteers were busy painting a four […]